title: Biosocial perspectives on the development of the proceptive, acceptive and conceptive phases of eroticism.
abstract: The absence of an interdisciplinary science of sexology has resulted in sexuality being narrowly defined by the particular ideology of the various scientific disciplines. This review presents a theoretical model to integrate the interdisciplinary data related to the development of the three phases of eroticism. A biosocial integration of the multiple aspects of eroticism will hopefully generate research and psychotherapeutic innovations not plagued by mind-body dichotomization. The emphasis of this paper is on the solicitation, attraction and pair-bonding phase of eroticism, since this has been more neglected by sexologists than the copulatory and conceptive phases.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003423:Critical Period, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012098:Reproduction; D012725:Sexual Behavior